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iUm) that in the old ReTolutionary War many I • peck of wheat and other gram was ground in GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA We add to our Reporter e _ letter in last Obser ..a l.ol.ed i„ a , vc. some i.e«s of ^«ard.y-. proceoaing, (ro,„ 12^ «.,»■,•,,i,.-The In , tho lUeigh House resolution reh- dians, uho had no mills, bad no difficulty m pre- In the :,j : Raleiirh bv Oonfede- narin® their corn for use. One means ot propar- tive to arresst . y pann„ » efion . r.ito nfficcrs was received, requestins the Govern ing It IS bv means of ley. The gram is steep- rate oinci.>=> i ,0 j \ 1 .1, *• i„ ' nr to take such measures as he thoucrht proper to ed in Eood strong ley until the cuticle or outer or «■ j ”1 skin is dissolved, when it is thoroughly cleansed stop it, i r- amsaj o ere an amen , from the ley and boiled until soft. Another mode the Governor be requested to remonstrate ^.th i, by means of hot water and the mortar Tt« f thf Confederate government in regard «> '""'P'’ corn b to be sealded just long enough to lo.acn , tit.on between State and gOYr.in.ent ag.-nt. in the cuticle without sittening the grain; it .» l>on , purcha-sinK props.ons. Ruled out »' to be pounded in a mortar and rubbed hand ■ M r^ Copeland opposed ‘f'; until Se husk is separated. Another niode pur- present torn, on tbe ground that sued bv the Indian was by tbo .uortar and pestle I to tram.nel eertain .Confederate officers .n the slightly dished block ot , State. wood with a small cavity in tbe middle, about ■ Mr. Warren said that he had heard ol the arrest two or three inches wide, and the same deep, of a member ot the Houise ol Commons, and other The pestle was like a rail splitter’s maul, and the part used for beating was th© hamlle the corn being put into that little cavity in the mortar and then beaten to powder. 18. Substitutes for Coffee,—Except in its stimu lating qualities, and its peculiar and delioious aroma, coffee can be so perfectly counterfeited as to defy detection, by mixing together any two of the following substitutes in such proportion that the coffee taste of all of them shall predomi exempt citizens by ordei ol Gen. Martin as Briga dier General, after an agreement had been made with the government by Gov. Vance, to return conscripts through State agencies. He did not recognize the authority ot Contederate offici-rs over citizens, after this agreement had been made. Mr. Taylor of Chatham said the self-respect ot the Legislature demanded the pa‘^>>age of the re.'^O'* lutions. That several exempt per.'ions, citizens of Raleigh and elsewhere, had been carried, at the nate, and the peculiar flavor of no one ot them ! point ot the bayonet, to the guard house, shall be perceived; viz; Rye, wheat, barley, (scald- Mr. Copeland offered an amendjnoit excepting ed and then parched,) okra seed, rice (parched from the operation of the resolutions, places in black, but not ground,) sveet potatoes (cut into ^ the vicinity ot the enemy; thought it was ncces- ribbons. or into dice, dried in the sun and then j ^ary for the arrest ot traitors and spic^. parched,) corn grits (parched to a dark brown,) j Mr. Kure favored the amendment, enlorsinr >1 r. 8Weetacorns,chiccory (parched brown, then broken Copeland’s remarks, and said the bayonets oi ('011- and ground.) These should be parched separately, : tederate soldiers were necessary to bring in re- and then combined in about equal proportions, or ereant conscripts; was oppusfd t-» the resolutions in such proportion as experiment shall decide to and deprecated their introduction be necessary. If possible, a little should be combined, simply for truth’s sake. The best Mr. Warren wi.shed to see the military as tar as citizt'us were concerned, made subordinate critic can scarcely distinguish between the spuri- I to the civil authority ouB compound and the real coffee. ] 14. Syj-up from the Siceet Potato.—All per- , sons have enjoyed the sugary sweetness ot the ewest potato, baked so as to bring out its candy But ha^ any one ever tried to extract that sweet ness in the form ot w'^yrup' ho will make the eiperiment and let us have the result' Items from the Sorth uml Europe.—The latest Northern papers, to the 1th insf , do not ‘.uritain much news ol interest. We annex a tew items; The Washington correspondent of the Asso ciated Press, on the 2d, telegraphs the follijwing: “The democratic representatives yesterday show ed how much they were emboldened by the re- ! stripe on the leg. and they niiirht cent successes ot that party in the North. The | declared h-ju compos manner ot several was decidedly imperious, and both their actions and language gave full evidence that they intended to support no measures that were not based upon the Constitution as all the Democratic Presidents had construed it ” The London Times, of 20th, in iu? cit\ article, Mr. Ru.ss fuvored the resolutions, and said that he wished to uphold the supremacy of the civil law—cuntetided that there was an agreement ba- tween the C(>nfederate and ::^tate auth«ritie.->— that the tiuvi riior of Nnrth I’arolina should e.xe- cute the Conscript law through the mi’itia otlieors under his command, and they had b.'en iiidu'tri- ouslv niirOLred in tryin.r to o.\ei ute ilie law. aiid was now unwilling to a^ai;Jon that po.'ition. Men who live near the (’apiti)l have imposed ujion the rights ot militia olHeers; he wished to see them deposed. The time ha arrived, whi ii, in order to extract men's brains, a surirical operation was not nece.«sary: put a button on the eap and a be ver\ soon says: “The report that Mr. Seward has addres.sed unr , government in a tune of displeasure at aid alleged to have been given the Alabama in British pirt.>.. created for a time some little uneasiness on the Stock Exchange, many persons believing th.it no Minister would be willing to put himself in such j a position as that which Mr. Seward occupies on Mr. Outlaw moved to refer to a select eou’mit- tve. Mr. Ctraham favored the resolution; thought that it did nui interfere with th« execution of Contederate laws in regard to deserters from army, or disloyal citizens. Referred to a select committee In the (^ommons Mr. Costner ot Lincoln intro duced a resolution and petition to appoint J-'hn K Roberta a d ustioe of the Peace. Mr Foy inquired if the gentleman propi-^ed was liable to conscription. Mr. Costner ^tated that he was between the aires of of) and 4^. He had served more than this question, unless it were in the desperate hope ' li' months in tbe army, and there was no magis- of finding a cause of external quarrel at any ci.>st, i trate in the district. is order to avert impending evenu at home." ; Mr. Foy hoped that no appuintments of jU'ti- The elections in America are the theme of gen- | ces of the'peace would be niade fiom persons lia- er&l comment in England. The prevailing im- 1 ble to conscript duty. pression is that these L'emocratic successes are a i Mr. Amis inquired if there wa.s atiy nfOe--»ity step towards peace. for haste in making this appointment. He had The sailing of sundry fast coasting steamers, j no -b-ubt but that there would be a number of for the purpose of running the blockade, is report-I application^ for appointment.- uf justices of the ed. A steamer, name unknown, recently left the ; peace, simply to avoid militarv duty. He ihnuL'ht Mersey, with 600 tons of arms, &c., for the C'on- J pome rule s'bould be laid dow.i' by wbieli the federates. House would be governed in thia mailer, and if It is reported that there is much disappointment ! no especial necessity existed make no appoinimenta, n France at the course of Russia in regard to in- | and particularly ot such as were merely trying lerventipn. i to avoid military duty. The London Herald says that the relations of \ Mr. Costner said that he knew of no partieu- France and England have assumed an unsatisfac- j lar reason for haste in making the appointment, tory character. F>ngUsh Cabinet councils have The resolution was laid on the table until .-iuch become frequent. j Jay a.s the House may s»t apart for such apjHjint- There are vague rumors that France as sent ! mcnts. another note to England in response to Lord Rus- j Mr. Headen addres.sed the Hou.se relative to sells reply. I bis arrest, [by Gen. Martins’ guard] upon whieh ^ The Saturday Review thinks that the Emperor ! the ffouse, on yesterday, had uken action. He Napoleon has movements afoot which do not ap- ! stated that for fifteen of'the best months ot hi pear on the surface of his mediation scheme, and Bays that the express mention of the name (’on- federate States, which they selected for them.selves, virtually involves recognition; and the proposed armistice implies an opinion which may shortly be altered into language more intelligible than words. This paper hints at a probable alliance with the Southern States in connection with the Emperor’s designs on Mexico. Horrible Barbarities of the enemy in Kentucky. —From different sources we are informed of un paralleled atrocities committed upon our helpless toldieis who were left in Kentucky, after the re treat of Gen. Bragg, by the Union bushwhackers of that State. A correspondent of the Knoxville Register details the particulars of one case—that ot Willie M. ^yoods, of Col. Porter’s Tenne.ssee regiment, who was woundtd at Perryville, and had his leg broken by a wagon, and was leU at the house of John I^itman, three miles beyond Lou doun. He had been there about two weeks, when a notorious L'nionist named King, with five life he had followed and upheld the banner of the Southern (.’^»ntederacy, and that he thoiu'ht he ought to be allowed, tor a brief season, to refair a shattered constituti&n, ami attend to the duties which his constituents had, without his seeking, imposed upon him. He further remarked that while his constituents U.ved the flag of the Confederacy, they loved the tattercl-mid abused and warworn banner of IStirth Carolina better. He was aware that the question ot these arrests was one of a most delicate nature, and regrettt d exceedingly that anything of the kind had oc curred, but was sure that the path of duty was plainly marked out, and that if we do no mere than the necessity of the c:use rt(juires, there can be no danger of a collision between the State and Confederate authorities. In the Senate, on Monday, liills and resolu tions were introduced; by Mr Murrill, in favor of Sureties of late Sheriff ot (Jnslow By Mr. Ramsay, rcjuiring the printing; of the inaugural address of Gov. \ ance for preservutifm, as otheT neck, and dragged him from the bed to a wagon and threw him in, breaking his leg anew. They drove a short distance, to the nearest tree, where they hung Woods, and shot him while hanging. ^ oods was a native of Hawkins eounty, and en tered the service, at the commencement of the war, uuder Col. Stephens. There was, also, a Mississippian named Gray at the same house who •had been lefl sick.^ The same party tied a rope around his neck, and hung him to the same tree with'Woods and he was buried in the same grave. Two others were hung with the telegraph wire, and aoother soldier who was on the very verge of death was dragged out and hung.—Dispatch, (5//*. Cotton —A letter from Mr. Bunch, the British Consul in (’harleston, published in the Jjondon Times, estimatf"- the amount ot cotton remaining in the Southern States on the 13th of August last, as follows: others, went to Pitman’s, tied a rope around his documents, liy Mr. Slautrhter, for relief ' ’ ’ , . . - . . persons as suffered from the burning of the Courthouse ot Hertford by the public enemy. By Mr. Adams, ot D., to amend charter of Bank ot Lexington, and to establish the Bank of (Jra- ham. 'I'he bill to purcha.se provisions on its reading, was considered, several amendments a- dopted, and passed The resolutions declaring that the offices ot Adjutant General, Attorney* (reneral, and Solicitor of 4th Circuit were vacant —the Adj. Gen. beingalso aBrig. (ion. C. S. A., the Att. Gen. a Lieut. Col., and the Solicitor u (’olonel (we think) in the army—were taken up. Mr. F:ilis thought with the committee, which re ported the resolutions that the Adj. Gen’s othcc was vacant, but was inclined to regard the two other >flicers, Messrs. Settle and Jenkins, as mili tia officers, they bcint; ?>nly in the C. S. Provi sional Army.^ 'Ir. (Jraham said^that when a ten der of the N. C. Troops was made by the com- mis.>iioners .sent by the CJonvention, it was stated by those in authority that the troops were not re- garued as lailitia. The officers of our resijirttents in the army cannot be considered niilitia officers the officers in the militia being held nt home by men under a State law. Mr. Sharpe thought that the question turned upon the point whether a man could hold two offices of profit at the same time. He desired to abide by the Constitution and would vote for the resolutions. - ’ The tirst resolution, declaring Adj. Gen’s office vacant, passed as follows:— rea,.~MeB«r8. Adams, of D., Adams, of 3., Arendell, Blount, Copeland, Dickerson, Ellia, Eure, Faison, Gra- MLindsay, Leitoh, Matthews, Murrill, Neal, Outlaw, Patrick, Powell, Ramsay, Russ, Sanders. Simpson Sharpe Shipp. Slaughter, Smith of A., Smith of M., Smuh of S., Taylor of C Tavlor of N., Warren. Whitford, White, Wiggins, Woo’ley. Wrieht and Young. ® Nay$.—Messrs. Carroway and Drake. The 2d and 8d resolutions pa.ssed as follows: Yeas.—Messrs. Adams of D., Adams ef G . Arendell Blount, Copeland, Dickerson, Graham, Iloleman, Jar- ralt, Lassiter. Leitch, Matthews. Lindsey. Murrill'Neal, Outlaw, Powell, Ramsay, Russ, Sanderw, Sharpe* Shipp, Slaughter, Smith of A., Smith of M., Smith of S ’ SimpHon, Taylor of 3., Warren, Whitford, White, Wijr- gint, Wooley, Wrighi, Youbg. Carraway. Drake, Ellis, Nays.—Jlessrs Bagley, Eure, Faison, Taylor of N. A message was received from the House, with a joint resolution protesting against the wanton destruction ol cotton in Eastern N. C. by orders of Gen. French. The resolution was debated at length, the resolution being favored by those who tlwught the time allo'^ed for removal before de struction was insufficient, and opposed by those who thought it was making issue between the Confederate and State Governments. This is the substance of the matter^ The report in the Ra leigh papers is not worth the space it would oc cupy. The resolutions passed, as follows; yeas —M^srs. .Adima of D., Adams of Q.. Bajtlej. Blount, ('Hriavsay. Dickersou, Eure, Faison, Jarratt, Murrill, Ramsiiy. Sunders, Sharpe. Slaughter, Smith of A., Siiiitli of .M., .'Jniiih of S , Tftvlor of C.. Taylor of N., Wiirren, Whitford, Wiggins. Wooley, Wright and Out law—'2!y. Aayj".-^Messrs. (’opelaud, Drake. Lilia, Holeman, Powell, Shipp, White and \ oung—8. In the Commons, on Monday, M’’. Shepherd, from the Select Committee to whom had been re ferred several bills relating to the relief of the families of soldiers and the subject X)f extortion, reported back House bill No. 9, recommending that it do not pa.ss; and a bill fixing a tariff ol prices, with an expression of the opinion on the part of the committee that such legislation was inexpedient. ^I'he r;ominittee lecommended, with several amendments, House bill No. 10, authoriz ing; the (Jovernor to seize tor the purposes of the bill, grain, flour, clothing, &C., in certain cases. Resolutiomi arid bills introduced: by Mr.Cowlas, in favor of W. W. Lary. By Mr. Fowle, a bill tor the relief ot families ot deceased soldiers, and jiroviding for a roll of honor .Mr. Beall, to au thorize the (Jovcrnor to have !i roll of honor tor preserving the nanus of soldiers dying in the sierviee and of those who may distinguish them selves in dt'tence ot their country. Also of thanks to the patriotic women of the State. I^assed sec ond aiid third reading. Mr. Worth, to amend 1st section ot the ordinance to secure the right ot .soldiers to vote. Mr. Fowle, to amend the char ter I’f the Chatham Railroad. A message was received from the Governor transmittmL'' memorials from lailies of (’aswcll and Cleavelaiid. a>kitig f^r nn'a.-nures to put down e.xt rtinii and .-peeulation. From K. W. John, .Nledieal I’lirveyor C S., stating the want of stim ulant' fur w-.uinied Noldier.s, anil asking that au- th-->rir_v b.’ given to the .'ledical Purveyor’s de p:ivtiiu iit til eiintraet within this State for the dis tillation ot wlii.-'key and alcolnd From M. L. Ho|ikins. til' \ inrinia Legislature, asking the co operation of i.egishiture in measure:? adopt ed by the Legislature of V irginia to put down ex- torMnn in prices of articles of prime necessity. > A message wa- received from the Senate stating that they will nut a_ree tn the House amendments to the bill t'- prevent distillation ot spiritous liqu- the j ors. ()n motion ot Mr. Fowle a committee of con- (lerenee was appointed. res>*lutiiin was adoj)ted that the House meet h« reafter at 1'.' A. .M. and 7 P. .'1 Mr.l yner intr'"iueed a resolutioti taking ground agai:i>t the order issued by (leii French, to have CcrtaTii eottvii burned, east of the W. i W. rail- r>iad, ur.ies.' removed by a given lime Ti e rt5o- huioiis state that if the owners ot the cotton can not get it away before likely to fall into the hands of the enemy, that they will burn it without wr- der. Pa.'.'e 1. ordered to be engrossed and setit to the .''er;ate. where it was al-o passt;d r »1 ri.'.^i’iii'' bill for the relief ot sick and Wounded M.l iier^ was taken up, and after speeches by him. .''Ic'srs Inl'ram, Person, Shepherd, I’ee- bles atid (Ilenrj. it pa.'«ed it*- several readings The bill authorize- the Covernor to appoint an -Nuont.with the rank of .'lajor, and two Surgeons, tv look after our sick and wounded soldiers in Uie.bmond and elsewhere, and the eotablishment of Way-Side Hospital.-*. It ajipropriates 83U0,UOU annually at the dispo>al ol tbe (iovernor. An engrossed bill from the Senate authorizing tilt purchase of provisions by the Governor, in tbe Kastern portion of the State, and di.stributing it ♦o s-ildiert' families and others in the several counties, was passed. N othing el.'C iu open session. (’'onin^ ndiifjft: L^bfrnlity.—A fVieod in Cald well C’ounty write.-? u.- that at the Superior Court of that County, recently held, a majority of the Magistrates being present, an appropriation was madt; for indiL'* nt lamilics ol soldiers: and that n n. .■'amuel F. Patterj*un, in behalt ot the Pat- ter.'t>n Ci>tton l actory and Tannery, contributed to the soldiers’ familie.'^ lUO bunches of spun cot ton, and the (lenerul himself agreed to furnish lU" bushels ol meal at the very reduced price of (;> cents per bu.-'hel We are also assured that the Tannery with which ilen. Patter.-^ou is con- iiee'ted, has never sold sole leather at a higher rate than ?1 per pound,—(»ther leather in propor tion; and that mai\y women and tfhildren in the County are indebted to this Tannery for shoes. We record such examples as these with much plea.'Ure. 1 hey are “good deeds in a naughty World. ’ which shine out iu all directions, encour aging others to go and do likewise. If every per- siin in the State who has the means to be benevo lent would use them as Gen. Patterson is using his, mu‘h sutlVring among the poor would be averted, and the causc of independence would be greatly strcngtheneii.—linlriyh Standard. SiK/'ir Cnnr Syrup.—Many ot our farmers turned their attention during the last season, to the manulaeture ol ('hinese sugar cane syrup, which is j)k‘asant and palatable, e.'»pecially in the absence of the New Orleans articlo. We learn that Mr. Thomas C. Woinble, ot Chatham, has made 570 gallons ot * xcellent syrup; and, what is better, aud highly creditable to him, he has not sold any of it tor more than 81 per gallon. Mr. Womble made his syrup with a wooden mill. The streets THE WAR IN AMERICA. Special Correspondcncp of the London Times. ThK CONFEUEnATF STATES OP AMKRICA lllCU.MO.M), Oct. 8. ■} 1 serious and niomentouB circumstanee for the importer j at New York, and still more serious f*r the consumer ; whom he supp^ie^. that exchantre on England should ' rise from par, or 109, to 135 and upwardn, when it is considered that .‘•uch is the magnitude of the New York “The spirit of libertv in the Southern States is i imports that nearly a million and a half of dollars are L- if J L 1 ..L • ; the wt-ekly receipts from Custom'* duties uj'ou them, more high and haughty than ^ ^ | p^e South, poor in specie, and thrown upoa its own re- 'irri >. , for ninete«»n months, fir»htine nsralnut m have repudiHied EnKlati.i hs though » by a Nero, aad have esc>jKd frojii 0..,.^^, conscriptions Wb never in.-.y ) .v.-. , "r ' winter, it is not pre'ended nnw 1/ ' are not wtnioly cump^sed o' •) -!) f are the native .\mp(ie>ins ■ _ - ,1 4. The South, poor in specie, and thrown upoH its own re- I in/f jn the .N •nhern rank-? tn In the (.arohnas and Virginia they have a vast j j, unable to spend moacy. * * ♦ Philips i-,Ue ;i e ii.-l ? Xi •> .' ; , multitude of slaves Where this is the casein. 1, pp^Hins for me to recapitulate from Sontliern scmr- ing hy i’ the S I..ih.-r.i 1 .v>,u„ any part of the world, those who are free are by 1 ces the narrative of the month s proceedings which fol- ^ Wfip-i' is Ch'irles Sumo. i ', n,,,j far the most proud and jealous of their free- | lowed the restoration of Gen. McClellnn to supreme com- ! couM ■={. m- Hen .tor B .kpv i i « dom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, ou the occasiori ot the headlong^dis^^^ of j inferior in intetlec. ..nd u w , , , 1 • J p 1 1 • V • the forces conirQjindPu 0> uen i ope. ^ . Soutb, which «ne*r« iuhi but a kind ot rank and privilege. iNot seeing 1 remprahered that Gen. McClellan resumed J courAze. r.i -h. w Iiow on.- there that freedom, as in countries where it is a 1 chief commnnd of the FVderal armies on the 2d of j hLn'self njioii the p.erilon-j »• common blessing, and as broad and general as the | Sept. On th« 1-lth he fought his first battle in Mary- •lu^Vi. ' (tlKt oi«- air, may be united with much abject toil, with { lau'!. calle'l the battle of South Monntaia, against ihe pitwi.b anoxte™/of s.r.i.ude, liberty looks, among them, like something tiiat is | (roops It is but iiio i roba**'.*- 1 of the sea aud the trreat more noble aud liberal. I do not mean to com- m^nd the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of man. These peo ple of the Southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the North ward. Such were all ancient commonwealths, suoh were our Gothic ancestors, such, iu our days, the Poles, such will be ull mnsters of slaves, in such a people the haughfine.s.s of domination com bines with the spirit of freedom, tbrtifies it, and renders it invincible.” Such were the memorablj words uttered on the 22d of March. 1775, in the Huuse of Commons *by Edmund Burke, to whom, mojt; than to any other child ot mao, it was given to look over the heads of coming centuries. The stranger who wins his way this day to llicbmond will find tbe fullest realization of these prophetic words on a far mightier held ot action than was in the pur view of th^ir inspired utti-rer It is not too much to say that the most fanatical believer in the an cient Union, ♦•e he Mr. Seward himself, would despair of the faith that i« in him, and acknowledge himself, in Victor Hugo’s phrase, ‘‘the somnam bulist of a vanished dream,” could he walk the streets of Kichinond this day, and guage the wpirit into actii'n upon so early a day as the Con ! federates themselves. General Lee had witnessed their p^nic rout after the battles at tiie end of August, had seen Pope’s shattered columns driven like huddled sheep in o Washington, and it was not unreasonable to sup pose that a cousiderable time would elapse before they would airain leave its shelterins? fortresses The only Step by which it was possible to inspirts. cmifi fence was taken, and Gen. Mct’lellan was reappointed To him, and to him alone, is due tke credit for reoigsnizing and rcinspiriting his broken hosts, and it is freely accorde 1 to him in this section ot the country. It a))p*>ar® to have been Gen Le»*’s princip-vl desipu. wh^-n he crossed ioto Maryl>ial. to seize H irper’s Fi-rry •tr.d to lest the spirit of the Marylanders by '.is tempe- rute proclamation, in order to 1-e uiimoU'Ste 1 in his at tftek upon Harper s Ferry, he threatened i'enusylrania from Haaer«ti.wn. throwing Gov 'uviis into hystevirs. and Htiim l inji Huliimore with the hope th^t he would emancipate her from the iron tyranny of (ien. Wool He had little expectation of being able to reuch I’ennsylva- nia, but if (Jen Pope had been continued in cotuman'i, , flnd Maryland hid been more free to net. there n-iu b* I no d«ubt that W ishington and Baltimore wouM have j fallen Hut when .Mot’lellan took the fiel^T, and the ar- j mv’s confidence ttgain sprang il dt. Gen. Lee had no o- ! ther puri>ose on the “oil of Maryl nd than to capture I Harper’s Ferry Geu. lackson,after reaching Hagers- I town, fell suddenly and -■ileDtly back upon Harper s } Ferry, an I envel .ped it closely upon every side, j ,\t this moment the fan»e of .MoOlellan'si ear?^ up- j proach, with the design of reinforcing Harper’s Ferry i • vertor>k Gen I-ee He immediately threw (}en D. H. Hill’s divi-ion, of from 12,000 to lo,XKt men, back to a • I *'t,h llli'll.;.. I.vein floods, the SoHth m.^y lose ihonsaiidM m, in addition to that jireal sea r,‘- Mo-. I'y,-., been poured out in her d«‘t-'n'e. H,|i ; without a single city or vijag-. with '• i c,. ■e Ifc,.' h(.r internal fastnesses an 1 her immensf and though every inau in the Nurih. rerf.. '■'t' ('T!6 and feelings of its people, after nearfy nineteen i ^ iJlsll’a, . * 1 1 1 ' 14th, Gen. .Me' lellan attacked them with not less thai months ot sucti warfare as the world never contem plated beftire. The streets are crowded, the ho tels refuse to contain their shoals of jruests; evt.ry- Remainder of crop of IbOO Undestroyed crop of IbGl Crop of 18t!2 (not yet picked.) Shipped through the blockade Rcmaimag in the S*uth bales. 750,000 1.750.000 1.500.000 4,000,000 50,000 3,V60,000 Av£tioti Men in a Box.—The Charleston Cou rier says: “Tbe attendants from a distance on the auctioa sale in this city yesterday were congider- ably exercised in consequence of orders said to have issued from headquarters* forbidding the giving of passports to leave the city until further notice. The reasons for thia step are believed to be to ascertain how many conscripts there are who can be brought up to add to the strength of the arxny, and also for the purpose of arrest»ng those who may attempt to pass counterfeit money. We learn that a Court of Inquiry will sit this 5>ormng at the Provost Marshal’s office for the investigation of all such persons and cases as may come before it. The telegraph office last evening was thronged with visitors, sending diapatches for extmpUon p»p«r»," 1 onea.—For the last week or two our have been made alive by the passage through them, ot numberless wagons, carts and VAjhicles ot every description. They are principally loaded with negro women and children, provisions and other property of refugees from the lower counties on their way to the interior, to escape the vandalism of our unscrupulous invaders. Such scenes are di.-trcs8ing in the extreme. They re mind us of homes abandoned and of property sacriticcd, and bring to our doors the realities of actual war,— Tarboro’ Southerner. t roin Jieloic.—^\ e have no definite news from below, save that the enemy are still “plying their avocations;” they are depredating and pillaging upon the citizen's of Hyde, Washington and lower part ot Martin counties. A desolation is left be hind them equal to that which marked the troops of the Egyptian Locusts of yore. Tarboro' Southerner. A gentleman who has “run the pickets," says the understanding North was that Banks was bound foi Brunswick, Ga. Prentice has said two sensible things of late; here they are: W e are disgusted at seeing nominations for the residency. Let us make sure of having a couo- ^y before we undertake tb decide who shall be its Chief Magistrate. The radicals confess themselves terribly per plexed to decide what to do with the neero. SuD- pose then they let him alone. Have they neve*' thought Of that? ^ where the (jtiictness and confidence of a people secure in its own strength, is inctmtestably evi dent. Everything neccssary for lite, most things retjuisitc for its luxuriant enjoymenf, as it is in terpreted on this confinent, ar«* t > be found in abundance There i-> absolntefy only one com modity of which the absence is gravely felt, that couuiKKlity being ice. Does tbe Federal tJovern- ment hope by such a frail rudder to steer the Southern Confederau^' back into the harbor of I’nion? Ut course with many of the supplies suck«d in through the most ridiculous of blockades, and traniported over the enormous area which sepa rates ilichiNond from the cities of the Southern Signboard, prices are high. ^ Along the Potomac there was, 1?^ months ago, a very large projtortion of the population averse to secession, reluctant to eutbark upon it, aud loyal to the old flag. But. with the war came the Federal troopis, bquatting fi^^t upon Maryhuxl soil and prey ini: upon its entrails, without offering one farthing in coiupensation, for cattle and »heep, hogs and poultr}, maiie and wheat, oats and hay, indis criminately seited and devoured, to say nothing of horses suden, houses and fences torn down and burned, havoc and rapine scattered broadcast over the land. Next came Virginia’s turn Starting from Fortress Monroe, and running westward to Winchester, scarcely a house within oO miles ot the Potiuuac but bears evidence of Yankee greed aud spoliation. In nearly every county the Court Housn, in which the assitcs for each county used to be held, is rudely demolished, doort and win dows torn down, while within, upon the white walls, in every phase of hand-writing, are recorded the autographs of the vandals whosti handiwork surrounded the beholder. Stories upon stories have reached me detailing h^w the wives of Fede ral officers, represented by my exa.sperated in formants as having usually “hailed from” detested New England, forced their way behfnd the Fede ral troops in the fine family maniiioDS of the old Hominion and pcr»onHlly superintended the ab straction and transmission Northward of old fami ly china, silver, glaj^s, pictures, books, furniture and piano fortes A Virginia ladv who ’•emon- strated with one ot the»e henharriers engaged in packing up valued family china, was met by the rejoinder, -‘Vou are a rebel aiul have no ri^ht that I am bound to respect; your proj»erty, there fore, is mine ” In short, .such a picturo of de solation }is the northern frontier ot Virginia and the lovely Shenandoah Valley, the paradise of America, exhibits, can be likened only to the Palatinate after Tilley s final visit, or to Attica as Thucydides paints it, after the annual Laceda*- monian incursion during the Peioponessian war. Tbe upshot of this syitem of restoring the Union will readily suggest itself to th* reiuler I have travelled far and wide through Virginia 1 bare conv«*rs*d with men, women, striplings «od ohildren in that Stutc in Maryland; I have sees mci. formerly subitantlal and thriving, whose evsrything has been devoured by the Federals; but uev«r in on* single instance have 1 heard a word of regret by r«ason of the war. a timid note sounded in regard to its issue, a #igh breathed over the departed Union, a ghost of a desire expre-t^ed in favor of a compromise or reconstruction On the contrary, on* universal chorus echoes through tbe length and breadth of the land, “The net is broken and we are de livered ” Mr Everett and his votaries, who still be lieve in imprisoned loyalty as existing in the Sotith, might ts well search in the British islands for a man who desired them to be annexed to France So united, so homogeneous a community as the States of the South ern C’onfederacy, tinils no parallel in our own annals. No war that England has waged for a hundred years has met with such cordial. unHoimoiis, undivided sup port. Tht war against the French Republic had its Charles Fox; the war against Russia its Richard Cobd«n. There ia no such character in the Southern States. The victory of the Federals in this e.xaspernted strug gle means, not the defeat of the Southern armies—not tbe poBsessiou of Richmond, Chirlegton, Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans, which would no more lead to a conclusion of the war than the seizure of the lele of Man. A Federal victory means nothing on earth-but the extermination and annihilation of eTery man, w,i- man and child in the Southern (’onfederacy. There is no passion, no freniy. in the universal language. The intensity of the hate diishes the choek and clenches the teeth, but finds little expression in fooble words. If anything, the exuberance of aniinosily ik more percept ible in the fi.ishing eyes and eager earnestness of the women; .but the eettled and unconquerable firmness of the men requires nothing to be added to it. Tbe possi bility of Richmond’s falling is calmly discussed, aud preparations have long been made for such a contin- gemy. Surprise is expressed that the Federals have not long ago poisessed themselves of several other Southern cities as well as New Orleans. The posses sion of a capital city in these days of railroads is » very different thing from what it used to be in the days of Wftgram and Jena. Great sufifering might be inflicted upon women and children if Mobile and Charleston fell; suffering which there is only too much reason to lear would be most acceptable to the Federals, judging from the records of their deeds during the last year and a half. But every considerable city in the South might be reduced to ashes, without changing the mood or un dermining the resolution of the feeblest heart, if any feeble heart there be, in the Southern Confederacy. * * But the fact remains that the South, though sorely Vexed by the blockade, is penetrated and reached by vessels every day and every night, and that, conse quently, there is no such scarcity as the Federal jour nals have loved to paint. The influence of the blockade is felt in enhanced prices, but even here there is a compensation. The South, cut off from external facili ties, has been taught to loot to itself for a thousand ooinmoditits which it once drew from tbe North, and of wbich it hfis now no alternative but to improvise, how ever lamely and inadequately, the manufacture and pro- duetioo. It makes but little difference to a nation han I 7ii.0('t.i men. Tlte-.''Outhernfrs fell slowly back before j thi.? iujpositig force, Vi'it tsot without intlicting njion it • such tv losp that it was not- until Sept 17th thatMcClel- | Ian fi.rceiJ on the moment ivs buile of .\ntieiam ( reek. TSe moruinc of th** 17th found (len. Lee -‘trotigly post- j pil. but r.ith Hut more than 4-',ouO men w)ien the battle | n.mHienced For oi;ce the Ft-deral papers, wliich are j in th? habit ol representing that the v arniie-! are but | handtulis uf men tiirktling agsin-^t cvprwhclniing horJea ] of rebels, do not cHitn tloit their alleged victory won ; aeainst Hiiperior numbers of their op^'onenis How great ' the disparity was at the conimpncement of the battle is ' probably know« to Gen .Mcriellnn It ia heliev»d by i President Davis, whose ca'.iu »nd dispassionate opinion ! will command more respect in Europe than the rhapsf- 1 dies ol the Federals, that the Southerners were at first | outnumbered more than two to one hing to take the field, they would’be insufficifcru'^ such a nation as the .'^otith lie at the Fent of j* The two races have come info. col!i»:o^- an aristocracy, agricnlliiral, spnrse'y RpuiJ.j field sports.living in tne saddle; on th» other racy which has been travelling 'townwarjq ' which is numerically four times as-oirijajf nent. which breathes only an atiuo-^ohert has no aspirittious be3'ond commer.-lal ihe more fit for the conduct of war' Ii j.; ^• to say that hut for their eunboai« tht> VHnk(.,.!i^ ’ before this time, in American phra«t', hav. * ‘■- ped out of their boots” by a popuUiion scarcply^ / ‘ one-fourth of their mitnber But in the South, in spite of itu ],w1pmv certain rough diseiplitie is not impopsit,!?, ,jqj‘ > lieiit Whieh oectirred two days ngo in this ci*v lieeu attempted in the Northern hos*'._:j/ bj- shooting of two des--rw*rs and tfie fifty lashes to a third Such execiui.in-; havp ^ n^'t been unfreq-tent in the i*outh: wn. rt-M, defeat of Pope, hundreds of de-jertf-ru pr, > tomac every rHght, of whom it is no; ini r forty per cent, have again enli-te J, -Cf* p it.j,^ mous bountie" jirofTere I 'by the N 'nh 1 desires to goage jhe reckless xii.i which has from the first characteriz.>d ti;! operations in the fie'd. let him notice thf taa ’ both -^ides the Potomac it is hard to iiieet^ V-' imong that amphibious population who has n • p. eral cap. jacket or pair of troilsers. It i.s «afp , ' assert that in mere prsctiee the Federal ofScPr I * and military, have fir-d away more powd,!- ^ been exfiended in anger by the South. ' From thf' lidjif/dhn/imM-k.—Accuunt* . Fredericksburg state that the enemy thii- far,h no fi»ht, although they have now .-^ix arii.y cott collected on tbe nortliern bank of the liappaij. nock They are securely guardin»- their tiank • if they expected an attack in that direction (Jur pickets report forty ve.*sels at the luourt the river, and two already at liowler’s, up this way. There was a heavy fall of sngw in the neir hood of Fredericksburg on Friday, and wei- ;. ,\t noon, the ubiquitous Jackson threw himself and i farmed that fhe ground ifl Still covered his division (possi^ ly 12,(X>0 men) upon the right wing of the Federals He had previously forced the garrison of Harper’s Ferry to surrender to a man, taking all their arms, munitions of war and cinnon; and though delayed longer than he was expected, he arrived soon en 'ugh to attack McClellan. The ground von in the morning by the Fe lerals. who were in tremendous force upon their right wing, was swiftly recovered and held until the end of the day. ■\t 4, iu the afternoon, Gen. P. Hill'e division came up and joined the ''onfederate right. It was well that Gen. Burnside's advance on the FeJeral left was so long delayed, and was eventually made with overwhelming numbers Tbe day closed with Gen Burnside clinging closely to the bridge, beyond which he could not ad vance. with Gen. Jackson on the same ground as the Confederates held in the morning, upon as level and drawn a battle as history exhibits. But it was fought for half the daj- with 45.*X»0 on the Confederate side, and for the reTnaining half with not more than an ag gregate of TO.tXKt men against a host which is admitted to have consisted of 130,0(X* men. and may have been much more No battle of the war fias done more to convince the Confederates that it matters little what is the disparity of numbers between themselves and their foe. The old and iiwolent contempt of their «nemy originally held by the Southerners in this war is con firmed and ratified by the experience of tbe last 19 months This, then, is one of the battles with respect to which Genera! .McClellan, admitting a loss on his own side of lo.tXK) men, e«fimntes his enemy’s loss at about 25.000 dead, wounded and missiLg The reader who remem bers the positioi. occupied by Grti Lee’s forces will smile at Gen McClellan's credulity. True it is that many Confederates, who have more regard for General -McClellan than is felt by his own government, affirm that the desp.atches put forth in his name are rarely his depth of about three inches.—Rich’. k.. From Gen. Lee's Command.—We havf ;i formation from Gen. Lee’s command as late 5, Saturday morning la'^t. The armj; is at iu around Fredericksburg, and so posted t’uat, era the Rappahannock where he may, Burnside, .j; ffooker or whatever other Yankee may be command, he will wish that he had crossed soa where else.* Tha aoldifirs are now all warz- clad, supplied with new and excellent ii: buoyant with hope.—Feiersbunj Expr^.,.. Evacuation of Winchester.—inchesteT iia* been evacuated by the Federals after a brief oc cupation of about an hour. The abolition for:': hearing rumors of the approach of (imteden» cavalry, suddenly arrived at the conclusion ihi; “pruden«e was the better flart of talor,” audit! back in the direction of Ox Ferry, taking tL route by which they came. \Vincbe.ster is once more in tranijuil posse:!;: of the Confederates.—Richmond Examintr, Attack on Fort Morytin.—We learn. Iron, i perfectly reliable source, that the Yankee fe: made a vigorous attack of several hours cn tiu work Monday last, but finally retired withou: i- ing the slightest damage. The Mobilians are:: excellent spirits from the result, aud inspired w.: renewed confidence.—Savannah Republiiau.'K. Sjuthf'rn Currency at fhe Sorth.—A tren’-r own fabrication. 1 am told by the highest authority ! ^^e i:nited States informs u= statement, comprising the most minute 1 ^ x- / ^ » 1 1 v- , the notes of ueorgia, Alabama, >orth Car:.ia and South Carolina banks are at a di.seoun: x mi>.sing, a; i>.i.*0o men .\uother circumstance is notice- j only /ice per cent., and that Virgitiia bank n:le that the official details of the (\infederate loss at the battle of .\ntietam Creek, estimates the whole loss in dead, wounded and able. A Federal l -ss of infinite magaitude would evoke uo sigh of sympathy, no moment of sadness, ex cept so far as it was supposed to deter the restoration or the Union. But the whole Confederacy bawails the victims at .AntietHm Creek with brotherly affec tion and s\-mpathy. Nor is that appalling indifference which amazes and p-.ralyie^ the spectator in Washington and New Vork atfocte i here Sc.arcely a lady but wears mourning, proud to display that she has lost a relative fighting in a cause dearer to her than life: scarcely a person but speaks sorrowfully and with affection of a loss which seems to them .appallitig, though not more than one third of that intiicted upon their poco curanie foe' That the battle in question, is no Federal victory, is best ovincei by the inaction on both sides on the following day. Thursday passed and no attempt to press Gen. Lee was made, notwithstanding the enormous numeri cal superiority ol'his foe. At length, slowly and un molested, on the night of Thursday, having effected the reduction of Harper's Ferry and fought on equal terms With his enemy, the Southern army was drawn to the southern bank of the Potomac, without losing a cannon or Wasting a life. We come next to an episode in the war which ia na- lurnlly ignored by Mr. Stanton and the Northern press. It appears, that, discovering that his enetiiy had re treated across the river, Gen. McClellan, on Saturday, the 20th of September, threw some 3,000 men across in pursuit. The movement was observed by Gen A P. Hill, who l^'ft a few field pieces in position, irom which he fired feebly upon the advancing Northerners, giving orders to his men to retreat hastily as they approached. The Federals rushed on tPfe guns, and followed eagerly after what they imagined to be a brijken and panic- struck foe But when they had got about a mile and a half Gen Hill opened upon them with grape and can ister, and the slaughter is described to have been the most appalling which the war has witnessed. I am as sured that not one-tenth of the inv.ading foe escaped— that the river was literally choked with the bodies of the dead and dying, who had rushed into the stream and struggled frantically with each other to escape the pursuit It is evident that the lesson taught on that day to Gen. McClellan has borne bitter fruit, and that his pursuit will henceforth he more wary. In fact, there is great rl>a8on to spppose that his next move will be, not against Gen. Lee at Winchester, but against Rich mond by ->0016 new approach. * * The mysterious announcements of the Northern papers that some great movement is in contemplation excite little interest or apprehension here. The experience of the past gives Buch confidence about the future that it is felt no Northern army will ever capture Richmond without such an effusion of its own blood as would change the howl of Northern exultation into a nation’s wail of woe Well mAy a nation be confident of winning its inde pendence which can exhibit such spectacles as every day produces wherever a Southern army is in the fielC. There, in poverty, hunger and dirt, shoeless, with shirts ragged and rent, often without hats, their feet bleeding as they drag their weary limbs through dust and briar, are serving in the rauks, the gentlemen of the langre azul of the South. Many a man, who, until th« commence ment of this war, had scarcely a thought beyond the Cafe de Joie and the Boulevards of Paris, and to whose mornTng toilet every diversity of cosmetic was as necessary as water, has for months been marching un der a musket, without one single change of raiment, feeding often on green maiie and raw pork, lying at night on fhe bare earth, with a single blanket between him apd the canopy of heaven. Where all are fearless it were invidious to select one State in preference to another as bearing away tbe palm; but it seems gener ally conceded that Gen. Butler has converted the sous of Louisiana mothers, the husbands and brothers of Louisiana wives and sisters, into demons of more than earthly ferocity. are from lo to l;Jl> per cent, discount. Thi: li; great improvement on 50 and 60 per cent d-- count, and indicates that a feeling of early peiK is entertained by the brokers of tbe United J'taie. the best barometers of national storms. Our informant says that he Was told that Cod federate notes would b« at about the same di«- count, of five per cent, if they could be dealt ia The cause of the difference between \ irginia ani other Southern States is t*aid to be because l:r- ginia was “deeper in,” and her territory ffi' more wasted and destroyed, than any of the other States. Our readers can draw their own coqcIu- sions, from the state of Southern money in markets.—Richmond Enquirer. Larye Purchase of Confederate H'jnds—Ti.^ Knoxville Register mentions the purchase at ttt Depositery at that place, of S-t00,0iU Confei^ rate Bonds, by the President of the Hast Tencs- see aud Georgia liailroad, as an investment I’t the Company. He has ordered an additionailiii“' dred thousand dollars worth of these securitic; How to Incest your Money.—Tbe sible way to secure what you have, and to your money so as to make it pay, is to bu} * f'" cent Confederate bonds. Send your Confedersx money to Richmond [or Fayetteville] andg^i“ terest bearing bonds, and you will thus help cause by .saving our currency from depreciiti-- Salisbury \Vatchmi'- Stoneuull Jackson on tl^e rt ar.—We clip following item from the Mobile Advertise: ^ Register: A young soldier in Stonewall Jackson's srn;. corps writes us: Our General was heard to the other day that “the prospects of the ConW; erate cause never were brighter to his vision^* that the end was near and sure.” “Thi? deal,” says our correspondent, “to come from^^^ reserved and reticent Stonewall.” A Literary The following is a extract from Lincoln’? message: “It is not so easy to pay s^hnething as it pay nothings but it-is easier to pay a large than it is to pay a larger one; and it is easier w pay any sum when we are able than it is tops) before we are able.” The above are decidedly rich in their way. will be known through all time as “Lincoln ap orisms.”—Pet. Express. Taking it Literally.—A Kinston letter to Charleston Courier says: A good joke is told of an old Squire—a —residing between here and Newbern uucuoo. maKea but iittle difference to a nation And these m«>n m.n» • r. I land’s most honoi^dnaLa, and dwcinded from Ea|l lorttp* ihoold b« at a f*biil9ua premiom. 6at it I iftad • b«at temUiet, wr« ia tb« field, hftvt b«f& 10, | Stotea." commander of the Yankee forces at the abo« named place called ufon him and told hitio * must take ti^^ oath of allegiance to “support United States.” The old Squire replied, innocently, that “it was impossible for him w 80, as he had a wife and seven childreB to supp*^’’^ and they were as much as he could atteou ^ without undertaking to support the whole ^ ■ GLORlOrS long silence, foi ,his time throu an account of > with artillery, s for Morgan! geveral other be found record >lAlt iKREtic the Observe* of writes ns as foil (•The mail for day evening, «n the Observer of «Yoa must ha bad any cau.«e ti mains in this off ed and distribut office longer thai i( opeued and di ‘The mail fro time to connect ' We keep the mtii get in the Fayeti •‘This I hope \ can in *nr Offi mails generally.- It certainly doi plained of that th Put for what pi Thursday afteruc fthink it was orij nd we are both f"* lail from this ph oanect with the ,ult is, of cour>e, in the Raleigh ofl the Contractors ri Cotto!«®Gooi>S i^evelopedbythe 1 ■WhileTiie prices j ■|^ade in large q %ales,—to go cu ^iiy demttiid for ^ggd to do withoi -it believed that e^ to lO,^ Ity the piece in th list I'e cannot saj ,U) fill in whole ^rrs of the Stal irhose orders havs fcere. We suppos( tcoDomised ab lon| tiling to wear, ’ ai ke supplied and ot a larger share. Thk Granitbvi! liiat this large e«ta el most of the man te abide by the ler likcordingly ieduo« ijli; Drills to £ togs ^ Shinit We hope to see 1 SoiitJi, and thus Makers, merchaut •hoe-makers, X:c. kigh priceb which fotable circunistai ^turers, who ha' ^sses together, s ^ple of moderati Kiy class in any c iGBOBOIA CoTTo; 4 Georgia has pas pkrchase the half U»y This is to b of the machinei? fsw weeks at the 1' l^^ixes U) pairs of 1 iO.M)pairs a moni tb such a supply edily clothe tUei •||l'seizing the fac ■IceBBary depeudei Jlhese Georgia Ci clliue which was b •fc perfect pattern •l|e sold by the ma for those which naw it‘co3ts So a pair t Salt.—There w iS liist, of oOl j bu| ■■Brks at Saltville, was distributed at 1 ••It is sold in ti^wu learn frcm ih >#w on hand at tn • Btowan county, aad )M| 1-ltX) bushels by t^^ly impossible to ^wan county .\gei M our Cumberlai \Ektchmau adds: ihiuk there tfcu.feeling tiie im delay. The Si bb success, aud wi 8|lt *?e need. The pibple will have pa 1^ speculniur's pi' We trom wagon:;, 5^he near prospec ^giuia has sudde m^d and 1‘etersWu ^Here is room lor i > 'An Ujii'RortTABi, Biohmond Whig th have prese;it 0 for a violai 8 ilaud-lioolr. «m order«d the pr !**•• of ihat work ^®®^e of the piopriet •%>roperLj* x llbOu, than West &, ®fcte for copie them ad l^iiting the work ^iluai, the lo!'.- w ^'he “Charle- ►^^ks ago we notic lfcir*ary an advert ^Qts had been mau that ink “equa into the Sou ^itomers at 25 ce ^^rleston ink and ^^‘•gth of the .Hmh. xhe ink diSerent raies Charleston over in repljr to ^ «>«ie which the .*^iiou8 from him to doubt the of yie Chari please, but w ‘‘compliiQent a shape that
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